2002-2003

2001-2002

David Silverman
(Princeton Ph.D.), assistant professor of history at
George Washington University
Dissertation: "Faith
and
Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag
Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871."

2000-2001

Melissa Homestead
(University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.), assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma,
Dissertation: "Imperfect
Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property."

1999-2000

Timothy W. Marr
(Yale Ph.D.), assistant professor of English, University of
North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dissertation:
"Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America
from the Puritans to Melville."

The first book by an AAS-Mellon Post-Dissertation Scholar,
Performing
Menken: Ada Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity, by
Renée
M. Sentilles was published by
Cambridge
University Press in the Spring
of 2003.